Contra Mundum

c o n t e n t s

Introduction: One Tradition, Two Lives 1
The Life and the Doctrine 7
Theosophy and Its Compensations 25
Maistre Among the Masons 35
Maistre and the Counter-Enlightenment 47
Joseph de Maistre and America 79
Tradition and Modernity 91
Maistre’s Relevance for Today 103
Appendix I: Maistre and Isaiah Berlin 119
Appendix II: Tradition in the Protestant World 127
Bibliography 137
Index of Names 141